sympathize
verb🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪz/
🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪz/
(British English also sympathise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they sympathize | 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪz/ 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪz/ |
| he / she / it sympathizes | 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzɪz/ 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple sympathized | 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzd/ |
| past participle sympathized | 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzd/ 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzd/ |
| -ing form sympathizing | 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈsɪmpəθaɪzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to feel sorry for somebody; to show that you understand and feel sorry about somebody’s problems 同情 - sympathize (with somebody/something)
I find it very hard to sympathize with him. 我觉得很难去同情他。 🔊🔊 - + speech
‘That's too bad,’ she sympathized. 她太同情了。
Extra ExamplesWe sympathized with the bereaved family. 我们很同情这个遭受丧亲之痛的家庭。 ‘I've got a terrible headache.’ ‘I can sympathize. I had one yesterday.’ “我头痛得很厉害。”“我能理解。昨天我也头痛了。” I can really sympathize with what she's going through. 我真的很同情她的遭遇。 It is hard not to sympathize with her dilemma. 很难不对她的困境表示同情。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- deeply
- fully
- …
- can
- be easy to
- be hard to
- …
- with
- sympathize (with somebody/something)
- [intransitive] sympathize with somebody/something
to support somebody/something 赞同；支持 Extra ExamplesTopics Opinion and argumentc2I completely sympathize with the workers' situation. 我完全体谅工人们的处境。 I entirely sympathize with this view. 我完全赞同这个观点。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- completely
- deeply
- fully
- …
- can
- be easy to
- be hard to
- …
- with
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘suffer with another person’): from French sympathiser, from sympathie ‘sympathy, friendly understanding’ via Latin from Greek sumpatheia, from sumpathēs, from sun- ‘with’ + pathos ‘feeling’.